#ShoutOutSaturday

And SO MUCH MORE.

This #ShoutOutSaturday belongs to God, the author of my story. In fact one of my favorite scriptures is, "Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it." (2 Corinthians 3:3 MSG)

In Acts 17:28 Paul quotes a poet who rightly said, “In him - GOD - we live and move and have our being.” That describes my life with Christ. Even if I tried to get away from God I couldn’t. In fact my heart echoes what Peter said in John 6 (:68-69), “Master, to whom would we go? You have the words of real life, eternal life. We’ve already committed ourselves, confident that you are the Holy One of God.” (MSG)

Amazing grace.

Do you have someone who completes you? Take some time to give them a shout out today!

Comments

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

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